Ilya Ivanov <forn@xxxxxx> writes: > I need to find all active (status=0) items not belonging to any active > trigger. The best I could come up with is this: > select count(itemid) from items where status='0' and itemid not in (select > cast(regexp_matches(expression,'{([^}]+)}','g') as integer) from triggers > where status='0'); > However, the cast doesn't work: > ERROR: cannot cast type text[] to integer Well, yeah. You need to convert the possibly-multiple match results into a set. Try putting unnest() around the regexp_matches call. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general